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Samson then said to them, 'Let me ask you a riddle. If you can give me the answer during the seven days of feasting, I shall give you thirty pieces of fine linen and thirty festal robes. (Judges 14, 12)
She wept on his neck for the seven days that their feasting lasted. She was so persistent that on the seventh day he told her the answer, and she told her fellow-countrymen. (Judges 14, 17)
He will soon be here.' But all she would say was, 'Leave me alone; do not try to deceive me. My child is dead.' And every day she would go abruptly out to watch the road by which her son had left. She trusted no eyes but her own. Once the sun had set she would come home again, only to weep and moan all night, unable to sleep. After the fourteen days of feasting that Raguel had sworn to keep for his daughter's marriage, Tobias came to him and said,' Let me go now; my father and mother must have lost all hope of seeing me again. So I beg you father, to let me return to my father's house; I have told you the plight he was in when I left him.' (Tobit 10, 7)
He then retired with his troops and all who had joined forces with him: a vast horde of armed men. Then he and his army gave themselves up to carefree feasting for a hundred and twenty days. (Judith 1, 16)
At the king's command, the runners set out with all speed; the decree was first promulgated in the citadel of Susa. While the king and Haman gave themselves up to feasting and drinking, consternation reigned in the city of Susa. (Esther 3, 15)
In every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and decree arrived, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and holiday-making. Of the country's population many became Jews, since now the Jews were feared. (Esther 8, 17)
This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. On the fourteenth day they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness. (Esther 9, 17)
But for the Jews of Susa, who had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth days, the fifteenth was the day they rested, making that a day of feasting and gladness. (Esther 9, 18)
This is why Jewish country people, those who live in undefended villages, keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of gladness, feasting and holiday-making, and the exchanging of presents with one another, (a) whereas for those who live in cities the day of rejoicing and exchanging presents with their neighbours is the fifteenth day of Adar. (Esther 9, 19)
Where goods abound, parasites abound: where is the owner's profit, apart from feasting his eyes? (Ecclesiastes 5, 10)
Better go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting; for to this end everyone comes, let the living take this to heart. (Ecclesiastes 7, 2)
Woe to you, country with a lad for king, and where princes start feasting in the morning! (Ecclesiastes 10, 16)
